How to Install PHP 8.3 on Ubuntu 22.04

PHP is a script language and interpreter that is freely available and used primarily on Linux Web servers.

To install PHP 8.3 on Ubuntu 22.04, we’ll need to add the ppa:ondrej/php repositories which contain the PHP 8.3 packages that we need.

Pre-requisites :

  • A system with Ubuntu 22.04 installed and running.
  • root access to the system.

To Ensure system updated.

apt update

Install any available updates if available and then reboot if required,

apt upgrade -y

Add PHP PPA Repository

apt -y install software-properties-common

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Output: 

root@vps:~# apt install php8.3 -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  amd64-microcode eatmydata intel-microcode iucode-tool libdbus-glib-1-2
  libeatmydata1 libevdev2 libimobiledevice6 libplist3 libupower-glib3
  libusbmuxd6 python3-importlib-metadata python3-jinja2 python3-json-pointer
  python3-jsonpatch python3-jsonschema python3-markupsafe
  python3-more-itertools python3-pyrsistent python3-zipp thermald upower
  usbmuxd
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapache2-mod-php8.3 libapr1
  libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libjansson4 liblua5.2-0
  php-common php8.3-cli php8.3-common php8.3-opcache php8.3-readline ssl-cert
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom www-browser
  php-pear openssl-blacklist
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapache2-mod-php8.3 libapr1
  libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libjansson4 liblua5.2-0
  php-common php8.3 php8.3-cli php8.3-common php8.3-opcache php8.3-readline
  ssl-cert
0 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,506 kB/6,394 kB of archives.
After this operation, 30.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main amd64 php8.3-common amd64 8.3.0-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 [704 kB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main amd64 php8.3-opcache amd64 8.3.0-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 [338 kB]

Install PHP 8.3

Ensure the added package is up to date,

apt update

If any update is available update the system and reboot,

apt upgrade -y && reboot

Install PHP 8.3 on Ubuntu 22.04,

apt install php8.3 -y

To check PHP Version,

php -v

Output:

root@vps:~# php -v
PHP 8.3.0 (cli) (built: Nov 24 2023 08:49:45) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.3.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.3.0, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

To Install Additional php Extensions

NOTE: Replace the required extensions name in the command 

apt install php8.3-<extension>

To list installed PHP modules/extensions,

php -m

This concludes our topic of installing PHP 8.3 on the Ubuntu 22.04 system.